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Cloud Computing

Cloud ComputingSun and Clouds
I think that the Cloud Computing concept exists for several years but
the technologies are now available and mature to be implemented in
datacenter.
Cloud computing is a real business opportunity for service providers
and outsourcing companies. They will be able to manage many datacenters
across the world in different countries with lower total cost of
ownership. According to me, Cloud Computing is the result of 2 major
technologies,
the Grid Computing and the Virtualization on servers, storage, network
and desktop. Imagine many datacenters distributed in the world and
managed as a
unique resource. It is now possible in the real life with the new
technologies !
The major difficulty for the Cloud computing is the infrastructure
scablabilty distributed in any geographic points. If an application has
need of more resources unavailable in one datacenter, the Cloud
Computing must run simultaneously the application process on a second
datacenter and so on.
Sun Value Proposition

AMD, INTEL, CMT Processors blades in the same box

Multi OS : Linux, Solaris, Windows

High Performance Network Gigabit, 10G or Infiniband. Reduction of
cabling with switch Magnum

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